1. (P7) "The Things I Carry." Write a short paper detailing what you carry, and how it compares with the loads carried by the soldiers in Tim O'Brien's book. This is a personal paper, so you may use the pronoun "I" extensively.

2. (P8) Two paragraph analysis of a story in TTTC. Pick any story you have read on your own. Write a two-paragraph paper thus: Paragraph one should describe the action of the story and the main players; paragraph two should describe and analyze the main ideas of the story.